Mammoths and dinosaurs 2024, April

Despite the fact that scientists regularly discover new forms of life on our planet, the past of our planet is also capable of presenting many surprises

The mystery of the origin of birds has been worrying paleontologists for a very long time. And the more various fossils of extinct ancient birds and feathered dinosaurs are found, the more confusing the history of the appearance of the birds we are used to

The answer to the question of why the mammoths became extinct was again left unanswered, despite a large-scale study with the participation of Russian scientists. Other animals, such as the hairy rhinoceros, were more fortunate: the researchers determined their fate

The skeleton of a dinosaur-like creature found in the Vakhsh valley caused heated discussions among local archaeologists

Researchers from Harvard inserted the discovered genes of mammoths that died out several millennia ago into the DNA of elephants and obtained living cells of prehistoric animals

The find sheds light on the evolution of vertebrates in Africa. Scientists from the Egyptian University of Mansour have discovered the skeleton of a giant dinosaur from the group of titanosaurs in the Dakhla oasis in the Sahara desert

The indigenous peoples of the Far North - the Nenets, Khanty, Selkups - call Yamal the sacred land, the abode of the all-powerful gods. They say that scientists tried to draw up a map of the sacred places of the peninsula and have already mapped 263 sanctuaries on it, but lost count

She lived in Egypt around 1600 BC and was a priestess of the Temple of Amun-Ra. On the outside of the coffin, in which her body was placed, was painted her portrait, decorated with gold

Scientists have concluded that at the end of the era of dinosaurs, Antarctica was inhabited by ten-meter sea monsters that hunted cetaceans

Throughout the Russian North and even further - in Manchuria and China - there are widespread legends about a strange creature of unprecedented growth called the indrik beast

Have you ever thought about the fact that the bones of dinosaurs on display in the paleontological museums of the world - they are not actually bones. Strictly speaking, these are stones, since bone tissue collapsed millions of years ago, leaving behind an organic sediment

The fossil record of two dinosaur species from the alvaressauroid subfamily has filled a gap in the evolutionary history of their forelimbs, which were intended to prey on insects

Scientists argue that the disappearance of mammoths as a population did not occur gradually, but in a surprisingly short time. In other words, most of these animals died in just a few hours

Scientists still cannot name the exact cause of the extinction of mammoths

Yakut paleontologists spoke about the sensational find made in the far north of the republic

In order to preserve the rapidly changing Arctic due to global warming in its still more or less normal form, the Arctic wastelands need to be populated with … mammoths

Harvard employee, biologist George Church, who studies extinct animal species, has been working on the Woolly Mammoth Revival project since 2015, within the framework of which he is going to resurrect a mammoth

What needs to be done to stop the melting of glaciers in the polar regions of the Earth? (Which, as you know, threatens humanity with a global ecological catastrophe.) To revise the policy of unbridled pollution of the planet's atmosphere

Scientists want to create "Dolly the sheep, but only with tusks and trunk" Yakutia-Petersburg-Moscow. This route was completed by the mammoth Chroma, found in 2009 in the Republic of Sakha

A group of scientists from Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia and the United States have found evidence for a new cause of the extinction of ecosystems in the late Pleistocene

Scientists in the United States, searching for versions of the causes of the complete extinction of dinosaurs, which dominated the planet for millions of years, have come to an interesting conclusion. In their opinion, this could have happened under the influence of dark matter

Western scientists conducted a study, the results of which showed the cause of the extinction of mammoths. It turned out that these majestic ancient creatures disappeared due to lack of water

The extinction of mammoths occurred on the border of the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene: in Europe it was approximately 13,000 - 12,000 years ago, and in the north of Siberia the final extinction of mammoths occurred much later

American scientist George Poinar Jr. and his wife Roberta conducted a study of a mosquito fossil found in the Dominican Republic, which was the carrier of the modern-type malaria virus

Paleontologists have described a rare representative of predatory theropods that hunted fish and looked like a hybrid of a velociraptor with a duck. He looked like a duck, swam like a duck, but still was not a duck

For 25 years of filming the epic about the lizards, scientists found out that they looked completely different. In June, the world premiere of the film "Jurassic World 2"

Paleontologists from the University of Manchester have conclusively proved that it is impossible to resurrect dinosaurs from the remains of proteins found in their bones. This was reported in a press release posted on Phys.org

A rather unusual find became known on November 21, 2018, according to the RIA Novosti news agency with reference to the website of the Moscow Region Ministry of Culture

The carcass of an adult dwarf mammoth was discovered during excavations on the Yakut island of Kotelny, Interfax reported, citing Albert Protopopov, head of the mammoth fauna study at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic

A unique cave was accidentally discovered in Crimea about a month ago. Workers during the construction of the Tavrida highway uncovered a large karst cavity. Scientists were immediately called to the scene

He just lay 50 meters from the local beach. The other day in the Vyaznikovsky History and Art Museum, traditional local local history readings took place. Usually this event takes place in the format of an exchange of reports

The only mammoth hat in the world is on sale in Russia. It costs about $ 10,000 and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. But very prickly. The Siberian Times wrote about this unique product

Help Mammoth - large herd animal from the elephant family. Body height at withers - 3-4 meters, weight - 5-6 tons. The reddish-brown hair was up to 1.2 meters. Skin up to 2 cm thick and long hair with a thick, soft undercoat

There are mammoths today. They live in remote places, and people periodically meet with them. The main mystery: why does the "supreme" science not want everyone to know about it? What are they hiding from us? Maybe mammoths died out incorrectly?

Where did mammoths come from? What kind of life did they lead? Why are they extinct? The scientific community has been fighting over these riddles for several centuries. And each new study refutes the previous one

The fact that the remains of ancient animals were repeatedly found in the area of the village of Verkhniy Kurp, Tersky District, was known for a long time

Once upon a time, whole herds of amazing animals - mammoths - roamed our planet. Covered with dark brown fur, mammals very similar to elephants were more than 5 meters in height, and they weighed about 10-12 tons

The reason for the extinction of mammoths could be a "mutational explosion" - a sharp increase in the number of negative mutations in their DNA, provoked by the decline in the number of these animals, scientists say in an article published in the journal PLOS Genetics

There is nothing more incredible V. Lukyanov Scarce lines from the reference book: "… Now extinct mammal of the elephant family, which lived in the second half of the Pleistocene in Eurasia and North America. Reached a height of 5.5 meters and a body weight of 10 - 12 tons

Now the Internet is replete with articles that mammoths lived quite recently and disappeared as a result of some cataclysm that dramatically changed the climate on the planet. Dazzling, but so what? Adepts of official science and the media continue to stand their ground and stubbornly speak nonsense